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Anthropic releases Opus 5.5 with lower prices and Fable-level performance
Anthropic called it "the strongest-performing model we've tested to date."
Anthropic called it "the strongest-performing model we've tested to date."
Anthropic’s newest Claude model aims to make frontier AI cheaper, faster, and safer, while giving subscribers more breathing room before those frustrating usage limits kick in.
Anthropic says its new Claude Opus 5.5 model comes with stronger safeguards in the wake of recent rogue AI hacking incidents. In an announcement on Tuesday , Anthropic says Opus 5.5 comes with improvements to certain risky behaviors, including attempts to escape the company's testing sandbox. It's the first model released by Anthropic after CEO Dario Amodei announced plans to "pace the frontier,"…
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Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei will brief the UN Security Council on Wednesday, alongside OpenAI’s Sam Altman, at a session devoted to the future of AI, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Yet Dario Amodei will attend the meeting remotely rather than in the chamber, according to Bloomberg. The briefers listed also comprise Yoshua Bengio, who is […] This story continues at The Next Web
It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the OpenAI–Hugging Face hacking incident , after which Anthropic (proudly) and Meta (reluctantly) disclosed similar incidents involving their models. This was followed by Anthropic ’s claim that one of its…
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Some investors, analysts, and industry watchers believe the big AI labs, especially Anthropic, are taking advantage of the current AI safety scare by inviting regulations that only the largest labs can easily comply with. The AI safety concerns are real, but the financial burden of complying with the proposed regulatory solutions would conveniently entrench the big labs, the thinking goes, while p…
This move represents the first step in the CEO's plan to slow down AI development. This move represents the first step in the CEO's plan to slow down AI development.
New York Times : Former DraftKings employees detail how it uses ML to target likely losers with promotions, while efforts to flag problem gamblers were shelved or squashed — About a year into his job as a data analyst at DraftKings, Jayden Butts received a new assignment.
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge : Google says it didn't consider Gemini's hacks worthy of disclosure because Gemini acted “appropriately” and stopped after determining it hacked real companies — Google says that breaking containment and targeting real companies doesn't constitute ‘misalignment.’
Axios : Sources: the USPTO and US Copyright Office were surprised by the DOJ's brief supporting OpenAI and Microsoft in their dispute with the New York Times — The Department of Justice's statement of interest supporting OpenAI and Microsoft in the New York Times' copyright infringement lawsuit …
Chris Metinko / Axios : Raindrop, which develops tech for monitoring AI agents to catch failures such as hallucinations and tool misuse, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV — AI agent monitoring platform Raindrop raised a $35 million Series A round led by CRV, co-founders Zubin Koticha and Ben Hylak tell Axios Pro exclusively.
At the start of this week, the who's-who of AI seemed - at least tentatively - on the side of AI regulation. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had proposed a three-step plan for slowing AI development, including by embedding third-party evaluators in labs, coordinating across the domestic industry, and forging international agreements potentially with government assistance. OpenAI CEO S…
Anup Roy / Bloomberg : ING: India's software services exports have risen to ~5.2% of GDP from 3.3% before the pandemic, as AI pushes the country's IT industry toward higher-value work — India's outsourcing industry is showing little sign of losing ground to artificial intelligence as the country moves …
Today’s frontier AI models know everything–how to safely thaw a frozen chicken breast, re-shingle your roof, and treat your dog’s ragweed allergies, if my recent chat history is any indication. Apparently, they also know how to create fiendishly deadly bioweapons . That’s according to a recent announcement by Anthropic . According to the company, anonymous scientists attempted to use Anthropic’s f…
Cybersecurity has a fundamental blind spot. We spend enormous sums protecting software while the processor underneath it blindly executes whatever instructions it receives. That has to change. For the billions of embedded systems running cars, medical devices, industrial controllers, network equipment, and critical infrastructure, security needs an independent layer that can watch processors execu…
Anthropic has named Accenture as the first embedded evaluator of its frontier models, with each company expecting to invest at least $1bn over five years. Anthropic will fund the work directly and says in the same announcement that funding should come from pooled or government sources instead, because neither exists yet. Accenture is already Anthropic’s […] This story continues at The Next…
Hayden Field / The Verge : A look at AI safety groups METR, Redwood Research, and Apollo Research, as AI misalignment incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic thrust them into the spotlight — On a sunny July day in Berkeley, California, the country's top AI safety researchers gathered on an unmarked floor of an unmarked building.
Financial Times : EU Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra rebuffs calls for an EU-wide digital services tax until “all possibilities” for taxation at the global level are exhausted — Global efforts towards tech levy must be exhausted first, says European commissioner Wopke Hoekstra
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch : Vantora, formerly UP.Labs, which builds AI-native startups designed to solve problems for corporate customers, raised $100M+ from Silversmith Capital Partners — Four years ago, a startup lab launched that wasn't quite an incubator, accelerator program, or venture firm.
Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu : Business intelligence startup Veridion, which develops an AI-powered, real-time map of ~640M businesses worldwide, raised a $20M Series A led by Hoxton Ventures — The Series A investment will support the development of Veridion's AI-powered business intelligence platform …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : India requires caller ID and call-management apps to share users' spam reports with telcos; Truecaller calls it a “one-way exchange” that is “anti-competitive” — India has extended its anti-spam regime to require caller-ID and call-management apps to share users' spam reports …
Wired : Internal email: Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program; sources say a significant number of Flock's ~1,500 employees may depart, as customers flee — As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.
Sophie McEvoy / GamesIndustry.biz : Nex, which makes Nex Playground, raised a $150M Series E; Nex has sold 1M units of the motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids since its launch in 2023 — Subscriber base grows sevenfold in 18 months to nearly one million; former Niantic CFO Jeff Shouger and veteran gaming and technology executive Bing Gordon join team
Thomas Claburn / The Register : Anthropic adds support for the AGENTS.md instructions spec to Claude Code; OpenAI contributed AGENTS.md to the Agentic AI Foundation last year — Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache — Anthropic on Friday surprised the developer community by supporting rival OpenAI's mechanism for passing marching orders to AI agents.
Reuters : Sources: Anthropic considers releasing a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since Astra's launch, ahead of an IPO and after Amodei's call for a slowdown — Anthropic is considering rolling out a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since its launch of GPT-6 Astra …
Kerry Flynn / Axios : Ad tech company Infillion says it is acquiring Foursquare, which will continue operating as an independent brand — Infillion is acquiring location data company Foursquare, founder and executive chairman Rob Emrich tells Axios exclusively. … Foursquare will continue operating …
Georgia Hennessy / Business Insider : Meta's personal AI agent Muse climbs to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT; Muse launched on September 8 — Mark Zuckerberg's ambition to bring “personal superintelligence” to everyone may be taking shape, one download at a time.
AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.
Financial Times : Sources: ~$18B of debt tied to an Oracle New Mexico data center slid into stressed territory, as investors grow wary of construction delays amid local pushback — Investors grow wary of permitting and construction delays as opposition mounts in New Mexico — About $18bn of loans tied …
Financial Times : Leaked presentation: OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278B from 2026 to 2030 and projects its revenue will grow from $36B this year to $350B in 2030 — AI start-up has projected deeply negative cash flows as it invests in infrastructure and faces price pressures
Bloomberg : US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children — Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed …
Christine Hauser / New York Times : An arbitrator orders Uber to pay $40M to the parents of a woman fatally hit by a car after an Uber driver ordered her out of his car in 2023 — Emily Normandin-Parker, 23, was struck and killed on a California freeway after an Uber driver ordered her and a friend out of his car in August 2023.
Wall Street Journal : Gemini hacked three companies in May during a test by Irregular; Google says the model stopped after determining it had accessed real companies' systems — The episode resembled similar hacks by other AI models, but Google said it didn't consider it an instance of model misalignment
Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.
Wall Street Journal : Sources: Anthropic plans to stage its IPO in November, later than many investors expected; the decision was made before ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon left — Investors had expected the Claude maker to debut in October; AI industry grappling with calls to slowdown pace of development
Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal : Angle Health, which wants to use AI to expedite healthcare benefits for small businesses, raised $600M led by Vitruvian Partners at a $2.7B valuation — Founded by two ex-Palantir engineers, the startup aims to bring AI-platform power to small-business healthcare benefits
Anthropic : Anthropic partners with Accenture to embed evaluators within Anthropic, including red teaming models and conducting alignment assessments — We're partnering with Accenture on independent evaluation of frontier AI. This is an important step toward the commitment, made in our CEO's essay …